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It's a shame those whores - I mean Senators, don't have confidence in him. It's a great way to avoid who is responsible for funding equipment - Congress.
What a load of crap. The transparency of this is obvious to those with I.Q.'s below 70 - these are people who, for personal motive (Hagel) or otherwise, dislike Rumsfeld, and are jumping at this non-issue to damage him. At some point, after enough of these non-issues are raised, you will hear the lamentation - "well, it's not this incident - but rather the cumulative weight of all of the previous non-issues" than demands his resignation. Ugh.
The President needs to make a statement and get behind Rumsfeld and shut this stuff down. Now.
On the Gravitas Scale, this story is about a negative 5.
The only insult is that these idiots think the SecDev has nothing else to do except sign letters. Every CEO I ever worked for used a signer rather than sign his own letters.
This is simply more of the ACT group in action - pressing the families of KIA soldiers to ruffle feathers within this admin. Dispicable.
I guess they are running low on things to throw at Rummy. It'll be interesting to find out if every other death notice in previous conflicts were hand signed.
The roar is getting too loud for taking any chances. Could be time for us to contact our representatives and let OUR voices be heard! Wouldn't hurt if "W" put int his two cents!
I wonder how many condolence letters were signed personally during Clintons disgraceful term. Just a cheap, underhanded way to try and drag down Rumsfeld and especially his boss President Bush. Hagel, McCain, Lott and the rest of the RINO eunuchs are as pathetic as their liberal sob sisters.
Chuck Hagel is disgusting.
Hagel is good at nit-picking, but just what answer would he have given to the soldier who asked Rummy a question fed to him by an embedded reporter?
This is indefensible. It is time for Rumsfeld to go.
While autosigning correspondence is not disrespectful in and of itself, this admission is indicative of a more disturbing institutional casual attitude on Rumsfeld's part toward American troops who have bled and died for their country. And before anybody flames me into oblivion, how much outrage would there be emanating from Freepers if Les Aspin, William Perry, or William Cohen had pulled this during a Clinton administration?
Well, the first question I would ask (and it's not mentioned in the article - what a surprise), is whether the Secretary of Defense traditionally signs sympathy letters. Were they signed by hand in the 1960s? 1970s? 1980s? 1990s? Is Rumsfeld doing what has always been done, or has he changed policy here? Until we know the answer to that question, it's hard to pass any kind of judgement.
I know why the RATs don't like Rummy, but RINOs? Those people are idiots!
Gosh, your addition to the handful who tote your mindset doesn't compare to the millions who tote the same mindset about the work required of you.
Are you trying to divert and mask your own shortfalls by any chance Mr. Hagel?
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Why couldn't he sign the letters personally?
I wonder who personally signed the 500 letters per day during WWII.
Chuck Hagel is stupid even by Nebraska standards. If this is all they can think of to bitch at Rumsfeld about, they must have no real complaints.
While I think Hagel is a garbage senator and this could have been handled privately(especially by a republican senator), why wasn't he signing the letters personally? If I was the parent of a fallen soldier, I'd rather recieve no letter at all than a form letter from the Secretary of Defense.
Purge time in the Pentagon. A few flag officers who are too tight with the media need to be thrown under the bus. The good news is, Rumsfeld will not hesitate to do this. Civilian control of the military is an important principle. We can't have the Admirals and Generals conducting sub-surface warfare against the SecDef.